William Klein Quotes

The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.

How few aim at the good of the whole, without aiming too much at the prosperity of the parts!

You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.

The concept of bettering yourself at the disadvantage of others is out the door, and the new one is to help one another while helping yourself.

Profit at any cost is one extreme of the spectrum. On the other extreme is unselfish submission for the social good or, more accurately, charity. Somewhere in the middle is peaceful, and much required, coexistence.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.